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02/05/2008 "Mickey Mouse Monopoly"
Disney is and has been a huge part of our culture aimed mostly toward children, and is considered by many to be wholesome family entertainment. In response to "Mickey Mouse Monopoly," I disagree with their overarching theme that Disney is specifically using racist and sexist ideas and characters and trying to teach them to our youth. Disney movies are a small percentage of what kids watch as they grow up, and practically everyone I know or have met has grown up watching Disney movies and the like, and it seems that the environment in which they were raised, not what they have watched on film or on TV, has had the greatest impact on how they perceive other people. The documentary showed some instances in past Disney movies that may have appeared to be racist or sexist, but I don’t think any of them were blatantly obvious, and there were a few where I still can’t see what was wrong with them, for example the hyenas for the Lion King. So in my opinion, Disney is not a problem for our culture, but it is our culture itself that needs to be fixed. Also, Disney is in the works of producing a new movie called “The Princess and the Frog” which includes Disney’s first black princess.
In the film “D2: The Mighty Ducks,” there are several black characters and female characters portrayed throughout the entire film and have prominent roles. The team starts out with female characters of Connie Moreau, and Julie Gaffney, and with one black character in Jesse Hall. They are picked to play for team USA in the Junior Goodwill Games in Los Angeles. After losing to team Iceland, they are challenged to game of street hockey by a group of local kids in LA, which has a mix of black and white players. They teach the ducks a few lessons, and Russ Tyler (played by Kenan Thompson) a black kid from LA joins th
e team and helps the USA ducks win the gold. These black players are depicted as equal to everyone else and even superior in some aspects, and the female players are shown to be just as strong as the males and stand up for themselves on and off of the ice.
In the film “D2: The Mighty Ducks,” there are several black characters and female characters portrayed throughout the entire film and have prominent roles. The team starts out with female characters of Connie Moreau, and Julie Gaffney, and with one black character in Jesse Hall. They are picked to play for team USA in the Junior Goodwill Games in Los Angeles. After losing to team Iceland, they are challenged to game of street hockey by a group of local kids in LA, which has a mix of black and white players. They teach the ducks a few lessons, and Russ Tyler (played by Kenan Thompson) a black kid from LA joins th
e team and helps the USA ducks win the gold. These black players are depicted as equal to everyone else and even superior in some aspects, and the female players are shown to be just as strong as the males and stand up for themselves on and off of the ice.
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